Select a group of customers:

• CAD Customers
• CAM Customers
• CAE Customers
• Data Exchange Customers
• Enterprise Customers
• University Customers
• Other Commercial Customers

CAD Customers

CAM Customers

CAE Customers

Data Exchange Customers

Enterprise Customers

University Customers

Other Commercial Customers

Choose a transition scenario:

• CAD
• CAM
• CAE
• Start-up

These illustrative scenarios represent reasons why so many MCAD companies are choosing Parasolid over other modeling technology.

Transition Scenarios CAD

A CAD company switches to Parasolid and makes up for lost ground with superior functionality:

• A successful CAD company feels that it is losing ground to the competition.
• A business review shows that only 50 percent of its developers are producing new functionality. The other 50 percent are dealing with deficiencies in Modeler X.
• The company investigates the modelers used by its most successful competitors and as a result, takes out a low-cost, low-commitment Parasolid license to experiment.
• A Parasolid-based beta quality prototype is produced in just 6 weeks and many known bugs in its CAD software disappear. In 6 more weeks the prototype is developed to release quality and more bugs are eliminated.
• Development recommends to the executives that the Parasolid-based product be released and that Modeler X be dumped. The executives study the Parasolid licensing and conclude that it offers realistic terms with predictable and competitive costs.
• The company switches to Parasolid, and 80 percent of its developers are dedicated to creating new CAD functionality. Parasolid's responsiveness to the remaining problems ensures that developers are highly productive.
• The company is competing successfully and making up lost ground quickly.
• The company concludes that meticulous software engineering does not cost - it pays.

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Transition Scenarios CAM

A CAM company attracts a lot of new business through Parasolid's superior performance.

• A CAM company with superb technology based on an in-house surface modeler needs to expand its market to boost revenue and distribute costs.
• The company's strategy is to import data directly from leading CAD systems used to create complex geometry - it will benefit most from the CAM capabilities.
• A market survey shows that most CAD systems used to create complex geometry are based on the same modeler - Parasolid.
• Modeler X claims to have a much larger CAD user-base but the proportion of users creating complex 3-D designs is very low.
• The company licenses Parasolid and has a read-only product ready for market in 9 weeks. This attracts a lot of new business and is very profitable.
• The company realizes it can add great value by enabling CAM users to edit complex, imported geometry.
• Six months later the new Parasolid-based product is shipped and business is booming.
• The in-house modeler resources are re-assigned to adding high-value CAM functionality.

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Transition Scenarios CAE

A CAE company switches to Parasolid and gains better functionality at a competitive price.

• A successful CAE company using Modeler X wants to enable its customers to edit imported geometry, saving the trouble of going back to a CAD system.
• Modeler X demands full list price for the required add-on functionality - no discounts now that you've committed - read your contract.
• The figures based on Modeler X are barely feasible and uncertainty about costs of future add-ons is a concern. The company feels vulnerable - even exploited.
• The company surveys the market and finds that Parasolid has a straightfor-ward and attractive pricing structure.
• Overall, next year's costs are similar, but the long-term predictability offered by Parasolid is very reassuring.
• The company licenses Parasolid and investigates transition issues. The functionality is virtually plug-compatible and it takes only 3 weeks to build a prototype that beats the production version head-to-head. It's faster and more stable.
• The company fears that changing the modeler may alienate its customer base so it ships both versions to assess customer reaction.
• Customers prefer Parasolid by a large margin because it works. And the new Parasolid customer gets better functionality with competitive, predictable long-term cost.

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Transition Scenarios Start-up

A start-up company switches to Parasolid for system reliability and licensing advantages.

• A start-up company targets the world's largest 2-D installed base with a compatible product offering higher quality, lower cost and better customer care.
• Indeed, the strategy excites the market and attracts more 2-D customers than expected.
• The next step is to move these customers quickly to a new, easy-to-use 3-D system. The company chooses Modeler X in the hope of data interoperability - it seems the obvious choice.
• Development of the 3-D system is proving difficult and Modeler X seems reluctant to fix bugs and regressions. Effort is diverted into workarounds and progress is slow.
• While the company struggles with basic problems, it sees Modeler X concentrating on new functionality for its dominant customer.
• The company begins to worry - Modeler X may be from an "independent" company, but who calls the shots?
• The company investigates alternative modelers for the first time and finds that none of these concerns are an issue in the Parasolid solution.
• The company finds that the Parasolid people are dedicated to helping it succeed. This is especially evident in the licensing structure that rewards mutual success above all else.
• The company switches to Parasolid and reaps the benefits of a superior solid modeling technology and a mutually beneficial business relationship.

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